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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 19
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Hezekiah seeks counsel from Isaiah to save Jerusalem—Isaiah prophesies defeat of Assyrians and death of Sennacherib—Hezekiah prays for deliverance—Sennacherib sends a blasphemous letter—Isaiah prophesies destruction of Assyrians, and that a remnant of Judah will flourish—An angel slays 185,000 Assyrians—Sennacherib slain by his sons.
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And</span> it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard <i>it,</i> that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 8: 29 (29-30); Ps. 73: 17 (16-17).">house</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he sent Eliakim, which <i>was</i> over the household, and Shebna the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scribes.">scribe</a>, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
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And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day <i>is</i> a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and <i>there is</i> not strength to bring forth.
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It may be the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up <i>thy</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prayer.">prayer</a> for the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a> that are left.
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So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 37: 6 (1-38).">Isaiah</a> said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
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&#182; So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
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And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Enos 1: 6; Ether 3: 12.">deceive</a> thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; <i>as</i> Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which <i>were</i> in Thelasar?
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Where <i>is</i> the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
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&#182; And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and spread it before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And Hezekiah prayed before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, which dwellest <i>between</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 25: 22.">cherubims</a>, thou art the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Neh. 9: 6.">God</a>, <i>even</i> thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/15c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">made</a> heaven and earth.
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Lord</span>, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
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Of a truth, <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
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And have cast their gods into the fire: for they <i>were</i> no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
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Now therefore, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou <i>art</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God, <i>even</i> thou only.
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&#182; Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, <i>That</i> which thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prayer.">prayed</a> to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
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This <i>is</i> the word that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken concerning him; The <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 13.">virgin</a> the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, <i>and</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/21b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Laughter.">laughed</a> thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?  and against whom hast thou exalted <i>thy</i> voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?  <i>even</i> against the Holy <i>One</i> of Israel.
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By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 13 (12-14).">multitude</a> of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, <i>and</i> the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, <i>and into</i> the forest of his Carmel.
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I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
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Hast thou not heard long ago <i>how</i> I have done it, <i>and</i> of ancient times that I have formed it?  now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities <i>into</i> ruinous heaps.
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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were <i>as</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 129: 6.">grass</a> of the field, and <i>as</i> the green herb, <i>as</i> the grass on the housetops, and <i>as corn</i> blasted before it be grown up.
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But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
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Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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And this <i>shall be</i> a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/30a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a> that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Zeal.">zeal</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>of hosts</i> shall do this.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
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By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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For I will <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 1: 7.">defend</a> this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
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&#182; And it came to pass that night, that the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 32: 21 (5-26).">angel</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> went out, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/35b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 12 (12-34).">smote</a> in the camp of the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/19/35c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 14: 25 (24-28); Isa. 37: 36 (33-38).">Assyrians</a> an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they <i>were</i> all dead corpses.
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia.  And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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